Oracle Solaris 11.2 CPU Performance Counters Drivers denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Oracle Solaris 11.2 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component CPU Performance Counters Drivers. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2015-2609. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris 11.2 (Operating System). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component CPU Performance Counters Drivers. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 11.2 allows local users to affect availability via vectors related to CPU performance counters drivers.

The weakness was disclosed 07/16/2015 with Oracle (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-2609 since 03/20/2015. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 84759 (Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : jul2015_SRU11_2_10_5_0), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Solaris Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115089 (Solaris 11.2 Support Repository Update (SRU) 10.5.0 Missing).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (84759), SecurityFocus (BID 75866†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-51519†). The entries VDB-67449, VDB-69067, VDB-69074 and VDB-73738 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 84759
Nessus Name: Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : jul2015_SRU11_2_10_5_0
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Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: oracle.com
Organization: Oracle
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CVE: CVE-2015-2609 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-2609
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-76597
SecurityFocus: 75866 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2015-2609 Local Security Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1032914
Vulnerability Center: 51519 - [cpujul2015-2367936] Oracle Sun Solaris Local DoS due to an Issue in CPU Performance Counters Drivers, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/17/2015 10:39
Updated: 06/02/2022 13:59
Changes: 07/17/2015 10:39 (62), 07/15/2017 00:10 (5), 06/02/2022 13:54 (3), 06/02/2022 13:59 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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